Police snipers

Police snipers

Dave Shields, for the Tribune

A police sniper team dressed in camouflage move into position near a apartment building in Arlington Heights, Ill., where an escaped prisoner was thought to be hiding. The prisoner over-powered investigators guarding him while being transported to the Rolling Meadows courthouse.

A police sniper team dressed in camouflage move into position near a apartment building in Arlington Heights, Ill., where an escaped prisoner was thought to be hiding. The prisoner over-powered investigators guarding him while being transported to the Rolling Meadows courthouse. (Dave Shields, for the Tribune)

A police sniper team dressed in camouflage move into position near a apartment building in Arlington Heights, Ill., where an escaped prisoner was thought to be hiding. The prisoner over-powered investigators guarding him while being transported to the Rolling Meadows courthouse.